. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . low-pressuresteam when plants are put in new, and itwill not be necessary to dwell upon themhere. The great want that I have discov-ered in our railway buildings, is that ofsimple adaptations of practice of using ex-haust steam to existing plants. When the matter of improvement issuggested, an appropriation may be askedfor to put in some quite expensive com- of each building and each plant show how local conditions may changea carefully designed plan, I might statethat, in our general offic
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . low-pressuresteam when plants are put in new, and itwill not be necessary to dwell upon themhere. The great want that I have discov-ered in our railway buildings, is that ofsimple adaptations of practice of using ex-haust steam to existing plants. When the matter of improvement issuggested, an appropriation may be askedfor to put in some quite expensive com- of each building and each plant show how local conditions may changea carefully designed plan, I might statethat, in our general office building, theplan presented by the architects for theheating system showed a beautiful seriesof arrows indicating the direction of cooland warm air due to the arrangement ofradiators and ventilators. In practicalworking, however, we found by an ex-haustive series of experiments, made withthat elaborate apparatus called a tobaccopipe, that the course of the currents wasin directly the opposite direction, and itwas not imtil the radiators had beenmoved to the opposite side of each room. GREAT WAMlMi 1 ,i.\ I & BRANCH OF THE BURLINGTON LINE, APRIL 18, 360 FEET LONG, FEET DEEP. combustion of the burning gases, and inall events, not to give sufficient travelto allow the heat evolved from the com-bustion of the coal to be taken up by thewater in the boiler, the consequent resultbeing a very high stack temperature andwaste of fuel. We also find that the gases are allowedto go from the tubes direct into the stacks,when, by being passed over the top of theboiler again, under the brick work, anadditional amount of heat might be ab-sorbed by the water and steam, morework got from the coal, and the stacktemperature lowered. It will be noticedthat, in the main, these are matters, not oftheory, but of everyday mechanical prac-tice; yet upon the slighting of them, muchloss of fuel, which is property, rests. When we come to consider the matterof heating shops by ste
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